Sentence examples for benefit budgets from inspiring English sources

In effect, they will be paying for the homes out of future housing benefit budgets instead of today's affordable housing budget.

He is expected to hint strongly that the child benefit changes will not be reversed, and also indicate that he supports some form of overall cap on benefit budgets.

Miliband on Thursday spoke about a radical devolution of powers to local authorities, but has so far balked at the IPPR's main policy proposal for responsibility for housing benefit budgets to be taken from Whitehall and given to local councils.

Control over the £1.7bn housing benefit budget would be devolved.

The £2bn the coalition has taken from the housing benefit budget is particularly worrying.

Labour is under pressure to show how it can cut the benefit budget.

The housing benefit budget has risen in recent years and now costs the Treasury £25bn.

It now estimates that only 0.3% of the incapacity benefit budget is overspent due to fraud.

The IPPR says another way to cut the housing benefit budget would be to cut the local housing allowance; the housing benefit subsidy in the private rented sector.

The huge increase in housing-benefit claimants has been despite the new coalition government's announcement of a war on the "out of control" benefit budget in 2010.

But making the necessary cuts in departmental spending and the necessary savings in the benefit budget – none of it easy – these things are not avoidable," Cridland told reporters.